Mozilla have released a pre-alpha build of it’s popular Firefox browser for Android devices. The browser, previously known under the Fennec codename, has been released to gather feedback from the Android community.
This news comes just a month after Mozilla announced it was putting Windows Mobile development on hold, and shows there is still life in the mobile version of Firefox outside of Windows Mobile and Nokia Maemo devices.
So far, the browser is only confirmed to be working on the Motorola Droid and Google Nexus One at this early stage of development.
Vladimir Vukićević has stated that this early build has poor memory management, and this build requires Android 2.0 or above, and likely an OpenGL ES 2.0 capable device. This is on top of a few other smaller issues.
Firefox for Android can be downloaded from http://bit.ly/fennec-android.
Nellie Groberg wrote on May 12, 2010 at 11:27 am
I reckon Google some put more stress on the apps multi tasking and background processes. I think they need to make a extensive mechanism for apps to get license to operate in background and it should be a user choice not the OS. As similar how we present permission to apps when installing. But it should be somewhere in menu “Enable Running Background: ON/OFF”.